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Obsidian seems scared people will compare Avowed to Skyrim, but it shouldn't be—the similarities are obvious, but the differences make it compelling

www.pcgamer.com Obsidian seems scared people will compare Avowed to Skyrim, but it shouldn't be—the similarities are obvious, but the differences make it compelling

Bethesda's RPG looms large over Obsidian's latest, but having played it, there's no need to shrink from the comparison.

Obsidian seems scared people will compare Avowed to Skyrim, but it shouldn't be—the similarities are obvious, but the differences make it compelling

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If you're gonna make an open world first person fantasy game, it's gonna get compared to Skyrim no matter who you are
Skyrim is one of the best games. Avowed looks similar but prettier and less janky. The comparison is giving it positive attention.
- I always felt like Skyrim was... fine. People lost their minds about it but I never thought it was actually that good.
  
  Yeah, vanilla was kinda meh. It was hilariously breakable and infinitely moddable though.
  
  I played it at a lan party when it first came out. We all had a blast and after a day of playing we had wildly different stories and experiences.
  
  Its an awesome game, and with mods you could get another games worth of fun out of it IMHO, but I don't think its the end game of games like they treat it. It can be better (mods show just some of that potential), and they're are other games.
- I would say the same of Tainted Grail, honestly. That game's combat honestly clicks pretty well imo. The two-handing in that game is fantastic.
Lmao is it built on an engine that was a decade old two decades ago and held together with duct tape and a rainbow coalition of unofficial patches? I think Avowed will do just fine.
- The original Unreal Engine is from '95
  
  Unreal 5 is only 2 years old.
If they made the same exact game as Skyrim, but in a modern engine that wasn't built on a sandy foundation, it would already be a better game.

It shouldn't be hard to replicate the good while removing the bad. And yet I've yet to see it actually happen.
Weird. It reminded me of Outer Worlds (an Obsidian game)
- Decent game but very short and not much to do in it
  
  I liked it a lot, although the DLCs were far more memorable than the base game.
- I dropped it after the first planet, it just never really clicked. I'm hoping Avowed doesn't give me the same reaction.
- which was like fallout which is already sci-fi skyrim, but with characters and plot inspired by firefly to add that teaspoon of space cowboy to make the medicine go down or something
I'm gonna compare it to garbage if the rumors of the shitty port job hold true...
- Targeting 30 FPS doesn't mean it's a shitty port.
  
  For console maybe...
I'm pretty sure Microsoft invited the comparison by letting people believe this would be "their Elder Scrolls" before they just bought Elder Scrolls.
Skyrim is an awful game, I hope Avowed will become it's own thing instead of being compared to that garbage game
- "awful game" what is with this rhetoric that people no longer have an in between? A game is either a masterpiece or "awful" these days, why?? Why can't a game just be fine or good but not great? Why must things be one extreme or another? Saying Skyrim is "awful" just makes you sound stupid honestly
  
  Alright. Skyrim is a terrible game
- incorrect

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